Maitemazz
Bio
Contemporary Argentine artist born in Buenos Aires. She is a lover of art in all its forms: drawing, engraving, sculpture, digital art, painting, assembly, stained glass, installations, etc...
Although she has worked in digital art in recent years, she states that she does not feel chained by any specialization. The technique is always at the service of the idea and not the other way around, without neglecting the aesthetic component.
She considers that form and content cannot be unrelated, because otherwise they lose value. A poorly expressed idea becomes diluted or loses strength, and a technique without ideological support becomes part of the decoration.
Statement
BUENOS AIRES PHOTO 2023 – MAITEMAZZ - “OPPOSITIONS”
“I want peace and not war”; until an invader attacks and all that remains is to defend yourself,
sometimes with violence.
“The world belongs to everyone, we must accommodate those who are forced to emigrate, it is not
“It is ethical to build walls.” “But there are many, the services, the hospitals, the
schools.”
“We must take care of the planet”, but some need to fumigate to produce food
and others shout against environmental pollution. “Let's save the wolves” “But no
we can live with the wolf, kill our lambs", "so do not eat lamb, nor
fish".
“I have the right to move freely through the streets of my country,” but some
They stop walking because they can't find a better way to make themselves heard.
In diagnosing the ills that afflict the world, it would seem that we are all
OK. Not so in the way of solving them. The only way out of intolerance,
extremism and intransigence is trying to open the closed focus of our gaze,
What would I feel if I were in someone else's place?
A war, a natural disaster, a demonstration, the faces of the
disappeared or the drawings of migrant children do not exist if there are no photos. That is to say,
They exist for those who struggle or suffer the consequences, but not for the rest of the world that he finds out from afar. The photo forces us to become aware. But to frame is to exclude.
Many photos and words are needed to show analogies and oppositions that occur in
different times and places in the world, from Cain and Abel.
That's why I cut out the images from the diary that somehow move me – “this
is too serious, or too beautiful, this deserves to be remembered” - I draw what is not
I can photograph, and I photograph what I cannot draw. Over time I discovered that those
photos and clippings dialogue with each other, and I began to digitally “build” new images
which, in my view, summarize these oppositions, because today I am here, but tomorrow
I can be there. I don't provide solutions, we don't even know if there are any. But we can
try to change our gaze, put ourselves in the other's eyes.
Additional information
Sobre la obra: Dos hombres en contemplación. Uno desde un balcón en plena ciudad. El otro desde una montaña. La altura ofrece otra perspectiva, metafísica, despegada del curso de los acontecimientos. Por abajo circulan autos y personas. Es decir, todavía circulan, porque parece que torrentes de agua van a inundar las calles. La imagen recuerda al
romanticismo alemán del pintor Friedrich (1774-1840) con figuras contemplativas
contrapuestas a cielos nocturnos, nieblas matinales, viejos árboles o ruinas góticas.
También Turner y Constable trataron de representar la naturaleza como una creación
divina, imponente, sublime, que se resiste frente a la civilización humana que la destruye.
Los occidentales siempre vieron al hombre como dueño y señor de la Naturaleza, en tanto
que los orientales lo ven como parte integrante del Cosmos.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
